PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over Six years of professional experience in QA activities during all phases of teh SDLC from requirements elaboration, design/development, test and deployment.
• Experienced in defining Testing Methodologies, designing Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Proficient in analyzing Business Requirements, Design Specifications, Use Cases to prepare Test Plans, Test Cases, and Test Scripts.
• Strong understanding in Agile, Waterfall model and V Model.
• Proficient in performing Black Box and Gray Box Testing.
• Experienced in GUI, Functional, Regression, Integration, UAT, compliance testing, site integration, compatibility testing.
• Good Knowledge in tracking teh bugs and reporting usingJIRAfor global test management.
• Strong Knowledge in using HP Quality Center/ ALM to store, schedule test cases and report bugs.
• Expertise in Manual Testing using HP ALM/Quality Center.
• Extensively experienced in managing defect life cycle using HP ALM/ Quality Center.
• Knowledge in writing SQL queries to interact with Databases.
• Proficient in generating automated test scripts using QTP/UFT.
• Extensively experienced in working with GUI testing using QTP/UFT.
• Expertise in developing custom functions using VBScript and using Descriptive Programming for QTP/UFT.
• Experienced in using Framework for QTP/UFT Automation Scripts.
• Knowledge in developing Descriptive programming for Key - word driven Testing using QTP/ UFT.
• Good Knowledge in developing test suite for all teh Web service operations in teh SOAP UI test tool.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills; Team player with excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Result oriented, committed, and hardworking with a quest to learn new technologies and undertake challenging task.

TECHNICAL SKILLS & TECHNOLOGIES

Testing Tools: HP Quality Center, HP ALM, JIRA HP Quick Test Professional, HP UFT

Languages: VB, SQL

Other Skills: MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Outlook

Networking: Client/Server environment, TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP, LAN, WAN, CVS

Browsers: MSIE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera

Platforms: Windows, Linux, UNIX

Databases: Oracle, MS Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

Test Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in gathering user requirements, analyzing requirements and developing teh Test Plan, Test Strategy and Test Cases.
• Involved in testing teh applications, comparing and verifying teh requirements and writing test cases as well.
• Worked with users and developers in building up teh applications.
• Maintained a Requirements traceability matrix in order to keep teh clients and all teh teams up-to-date with teh current progress of teh project.
• Performed Ad-hoc, Smoke, Functional, Acceptance, System, Integration, Usability and Regression testing etc. during different stages of teh application development.
• Worked closely with development team in resolving bugs and verified and closed bug reports once they are resolved inJIRA.
• Used HP ALM to maintain test cases and executed test scenarios, and log defects.
• Investigated Software defects and interacted with Business Analysts to update teh test cases in HP ALM and Developers to resolve technical issues.
• Created and executed SQL queries for backend testing.
• Created SQL queries for database testing and to analyze business logic components of teh product.
• Involved in Regression Testing for all changes in modules using UFT.
• Built detailed and reusable Hybrid Automation Framework using UFT.
• Developed scripts using VB Script and Descriptive programming in UFT for smoke and regression testing activities of teh front-end component of teh web based application.
• Developed automated scripts in UFT for front-end smoke and regression testing
• Worked with Regular Expressions in GUI maps to run teh tests in System Test, Integration Test, and UAT using VB script in UFT.
• Responsible for preparing teh user documentation and halping teh users in UAT.
• Reported teh status of test planning, defects and execution activities, including regular status updated to teh project team using quality metrics.
• Participated in weekly status meetings.
• Created test Status report and Test Completion Report for feature testing.

Environment: HP ALM, Java, .NET, HTML, SQL, Windows, Share Point, JIRA, C/C++, C#, MS Visio, Outlook, UFT, Oracle, DB2, MS Word, UNIX, XML.

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and presented Test approach, Test strategy and Test Plan.
• Involved in teh execution of teh overall test strategy, ensured test plans aligning with test strategy.
• Involved in designing of Test scripts based on teh System requirements from teh business Analyst.
• Performed negative and positive testing for teh application.
• Performed Backend Testing of teh Oracle Database manually to ensure Order details and requests were correctly inserted.
• Planned releases with teh team using JIRA.
• Tracked and reported bugs and also generated reports using HP ALM.
• Updated teh requirements and defect status as per teh current status of teh testing project using HP ALM.
• Wrote SQL queries to test database tables for back end testing.
• Used UFT for regression testing for automation of multiple modules in teh environments.
• Performed Automation of test with extensive VB Scripting for dynamic code in UFT.
• Wrote teh functions in Function Libraries and associated teh required function libraries to each test using UFT.
• Performed complex integration and regression tests on multiple applications using UFT.
• Developed a Hybrid Automation Framework to perform Functionality and GUI testing using UFT.
• Involved in defect tracking and customized reports on defects.
• Participated in regular Team meetings and discussions.

Environment: HP ALM, UFT, C, C++, C#, JIRA,VB Script, PHP, Windows, Java, SQL, HTML, XML, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, UNIX/Linux.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

QA Tester

Responsibilities:

• Involved in analyzing requirement specifications, developing test plans, test cases, test scripts and planning for QA methodologies.
• Analyzed project documentation and prepared detailed Test cases (manual and automated).
• Analyzed, Understood and Estimated requirements.
• Managed Objects in teh Object Repository, parameterized tests in Global and Local Data Tables.
• Performed Positive and Negative testing.
• Performed Manual Testing for teh Functionality and GUI of teh application using Quality Center/ALM.
• Ensured teh actual results match expected results using Quality Center/ALM.
• Wrote SQL queries to test database tables for back end testing.
• Inserted check points to check for text, text area and standard properties of an object using QTP/UFT.
• Involved with testing team and created Automation frame work using QTP/UFT.
• Responsible for enhancing teh test script of application using QTP/UFT.
• Used verification points and conducted Data Driven test with teh Test Data set using QTP/UFT.
• Worked on User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with users along with providing training to end-users.
• Involved in assisting with application training of new resources.
• Interpreted quality audits, coordinated improvements and change, and facilitated test methodology across multiple business units.

Environment: QTP/UFT, Quality Center/ALM, C++, C, HTML, Java, Oracle, Windows, Java Script, VB Script, Web Services, UNIX, MS Excel, MS Word.